I was set to declutter my house, when I realized everyone is doing it, so I stopped. I’d even bought Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and devoured…
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“My husband Bruce works hard here on the farm and at his job. But when he’s tired he lies down. Sometimes he snores. “I admire how he grabs that sleep,…
Darrell Laurant, author of The Kudzu Kid, writes about The River Caught Sunlight: “This gracefully written, multi-layered book is actually a literary hybrid — part memoir, part novel” on his…
“I was carrying Number Seven to the chicken shed when Bruce said, ‘You might want to let her stay in the barn. They’ll kill her if you put her with…
For Lent I decided to read Revelation through like the wild, apocalyptic narrative it is, you know, like science fiction, not trying to figure out what every verse means. I…
“It’s raining to the east. You might see a rainbow,” said Candace King our local weather forecaster. I picked myself up and went outside to do chores. The day was…
Sometimes the complaint is the answer, but it can devolve into an emotional stink that drives people off. I know, because I’ve been so wounded from losing my family…
“Be positive. Banish the negative. Be thankful. Messages like this stream through Facebook. But I disagree, because you just can’t be happy all the time,” so opens my Perspective on…
Please welcome Mike Frosolono to my blog. We’re trading places for a bit. His novel Comfort and Affliction deals with the same themes as my novel in that a veteran…
Watched the moon rise behind a tree big enough to send cracks through the fire that grew slowly as the earth shifted out of her way. When she pulled away…